View source for Configure PLplot for MinGW/CLI

You need a working MinGW installation. Start the command line interface (NOT MSYS) and issue the following commands:

 cd plplot
 mkdir buildmingw
 cd buildmingw
 cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install ..
 mingw32-make
 mingw32-make install

This will build a shared plplot library and install all files into the directory <tt>plplot\buildmingw\install</tt>. The following options are available for cmake:

* <tt>-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF</tt>: static build of plplot
* <tt>-DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON</tt>: makefiles provide verbose informations
* <tt>-DBUILD_TEST=ON</tt>: all examples will be built also (for test purposes)
* [[Configuration of wxWidgets driver]]

If you used the <tt>-DBUILD_TEST=ON</tt> option, you need to copy some files in order to run the examples:

 cd examples\c
 copy ..\..\..\data\*.fnt .

and additionally some dlls for a shared plplot built:

 copy ..\..\src\libplplotd.dll .
 copy "..\..\bindings\c++\libplplotcxxd.dll" . (for c++ examples)
 copy ..\..\lib\csa\libcsirocsa.dll . (if library as built)

and for the wxWidgets driver (if wxWidgets library is shared):

 copy %WXWIN%\lib\gcc_dll\wxmsw26d_gcc_custom.dll .

if this dll is not in the path.